Quite true is it, that you often have a hard time to prove to your husband that the washer is a money saver, that the ironer too is a saver of money. But this can be done very easily. Let money talk and the machinery will almost install itself! The laundry equipment, of course, is a serious thing and must be taken so. Many things should be investigated before buying, your needs known to yourself. Equipment should not, like marriage, be entered into unadvisedly, for when you spend money you must spend it as an investment and not as a mere lark. You must get your return on the investment or you have thrown it away. If you do not know what to get, read, use shoe leather and ask those who have the thing you want. The manufacturers too are glad to talk over your needs. REQUIREMENTS OF THE HOME LAUNDRY A satisfactory laundry depends on:-- 1. The location of room, its relation to outdoor drying and its relation to the source of supply of incoming laundry. 2. Proper floor, ceiling and walls. All joints curved, no corners. 3. Selection of equipment. The types and kinds best fitted to size of family and room. 4. The advantageous disposal of appliances purchased. 5. Thorough instruction of operators in the use of the machinery, as a good machine is useless unless the operator knows the requirements. 6. Proper care of appliances. 7. Sanitary conditions: light and ventilation. Good air is part of all good laundry work. 8. The acceptance of the worker to use cheerfully the machinery and the adequate payment of the worker. 9. Knowledge on the part of the housekeeper or mistress of the laundry procedure in order to oversee more intelligently the work done. _Women seem to think a knowledge of cookery_ necessary but _give little heed to the importance_ of the laundry. 10. A system developed and maintained for the laundering of clothes. So much for the general principles. This chapter will not deal at all with methods of laundry work ... as is. The only reason for the electric laundry is that it does save time, money and energy and prolongs the life of clothes to a certain degree. In doing missionary work in the past for these things, people said: “you can lead a maid to the washer but you can’t make her wash.” They said this too about the horse and the trough, yet if he never drank he would have died of thirst! So much for that argument. You may as well say: You can lead a cook to the soup pot but you can’t make him stir! Money talks to husbands! you can prove the saving. Less work talks to laundresses, you can prove the saving. GENERALLY SPEAKING A good equipment for a house with six in the family and three to four servants is as follows: A tiled floor. The large blue tile is interesting and less glaring for the floor than the white. Linoleum floors too are splendid and cream walls.